Searcher articles from April 2003

Searcher archives from April 2003

Another killer product. (Searcher's Voice).(Nexcerpt)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 1, 2003... In my long career as an editor, I have only once used my editorial page to applaud a product. That occasion was the "Killer Product" editorial in the July/August 1991 issue of Database Searcher. Well, with the arrival of a new century, I guess...

Nexcerpt Web monitoring/redistribution service launched. (Newsbreak).
April 1, 2003... Monitoring good Web content sources, extracting relevant information, and re-distributing it to the people who need it has become a basic service for many information professionals, one that absorbs a great deal of time. The automated features...

Pay it forward; or, can the Web offer tax relief? (Internet Express).(information available)
April 1, 2003... "The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money." Revenue Auditor Once again, the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the sun. The return of songbirds and the unfolding of green leaves on black branches herald the arrival of one of...

That was the year that was--patents, 2002. (The Better Mousetrap).(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... The year 2002 saw an increased access to older patents and technical literature from Chemical Abstracts, Questel-Orbit, and MicroPatent. It saw (of course) more developments in Internet-based patent resources. It saw enhanced access to patent...

Plagiarism: librarians help provide new solutions to an old problem.(services and software)
April 1, 2003... When Jennifer was accused of plagiarism by her English professor, her reaction ran the gamut from clueless ("What...?) to tearful ("How could you even think...?") to righteously indignant ("WHAT...??!!). The instructor, seated at a computer,...

Pop-ups flop up. (Emmerce).
April 1, 2003... Once inescapable, now pop-up advertising is more and more being loudly abandoned by Web sites Why? And is there something more insidious coming to take its place? The Web started with no advertising at all and a limited number of sites...

Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki, and the Plone Wars: Wiki as PJM and collaborative content tool.(Column)
April 1, 2003... Hyperspace -- the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Hypership Wiki. Its nonlinear mission: to explore strange new patterns, to seek out new relational links and new civilized structures, to boldly go where no PJM has gone before....

The influence of business on government.(web sites directory)
April 1, 2003... An article on CNN.com details the contents of previously sealed court documents that prove beyond doubt that "political party officials and the donors they solicit routinely linked big contributions to government business, from merger approvals...

The good, the bad, and they Ugly: PDF alternatives. (Tools of the Trade).(Anonymizer-Private Surfing 2.0 , Spamnix and related articles)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 1, 2003... Until now, I've only written about my positive "Tools of the Trade" experiences. However, as we all know, we can also learn from failure, so I thought it was time to share some of those experiences along with the good ones. I'm going to start...